Back to the Grind

Today was a pretty crappy day.  It wasn't horrible, nor was anything really out of the ordinary, except for my back deciding to remind me of its presence all day long.  I don't remember doing anything to it, but I woke up in quite a bit of pain that was amplified with any movement.  However, trooper that I am, I faced the day.  When I had difficulty standing still and with walking, I thought about calling into work sick.  Then I realized that most days I just sit in my chair and wait for the phone to ring so that I can assist them, and figured I'd probably be able to handle that.

Walking like Quasimodo, I made it to work at a slower pace than usual.  I settled in and things felt pretty good in my chair.  Then the phone calls started, and things kept needing to be done on the 2nd floor of the building.  Rarely do I have anything to do up there, but today it was all up there.  I thought maybe the universe was telling me something, that maybe it's time to move on from all of this.

Then I find out that another friend on the other side of the country is randomly dealing with back pain today, and that other people are having generally bad days.  It reminds me that while many people have a case of the Mondays, I've recently had more cases of the Tuesdays and Thursdays.  For whatever reasons, those days are worse than Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays.  We're leaving weekends out of this.  So in the end, I'm chalking it up to just another Tuesday.  Unless it continues into tomorrow, in which case we're going to have some issues...

"After the Storm" is the last track on Mumford & Sons' album "Sigh No More".  It's also the closing song of tonight's season premiere episode of Stargate Universe, of which I'm a big fan.  It's a great way to end the album, and a great way to end this episode.  I've managed to persuade several of my friends into watching (and liking!) Stargate Universe, but there's a few holdouts I'm still working on.  I wish the music alone would convince them, as we've now had Flogging Molly and Mumford & Sons used as soundtracks, and these holdouts like these artists.  Time will tell I guess...